Interrupting country star Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards was just what you might have expected from Kanye West. TIME looks back at the famously cocky rapper's most out-there stunts

I DON'T TWEET, I BLOG

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Chances are, if you are a celebrity, you have at some point been impersonated on Twitter. But in May 2009, Kanye responded to the authors of faux-Kanye Twitter feeds as only Kanye can. "I DON'T HAVE A F___ING TWITTER," he wrote in all caps ... on his blog. "HEY TWITTER, TAKE THE SO CALLED KANYE WEST TWITTER DOWN NOW ... WHY? ... BECAUSE MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS LOUD!!!!!!!!!" Can't argue with that logic.